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for the Week of March 20 to March 27, 2011
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Posted 2011-03-26:
- Antarctic icebergs play a previously unknown role in global carbon cycle, climate
- Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
- Algae, bacteria hogged oxygen after ancient mass extinction, slowed marine life recovery
- Bats keep separate households
- Inclusive fitness theory defended
Posted 2011-03-26:
- Kudzu vines spreading north from US Southeast with warming climate
- Conch shell gives nano insights into composite materials
- Uncertain future for Joshua trees in US Southwest projected with climate change
- Cruise ship norovirus outbreak highlights how infections spread
- In vivo systems biology: Using computer models, systems biologists can predict complicated behavior of cells in living animals
- MRSA infection shown to be seasonal
- Wild birds may play a role in the spread of bird flu, new research suggests
- Eskimo study suggests high consumption of omega-3s in fish-rich diet reduces obesity-related disease risk
- Russian boreal forests undergoing vegetation change, study shows
- Religious young adults become obese by middle age: Cause may be unhealthy food at religious activities
- Artifacts in Texas predate Clovis culture by 2,500 years, new study shows
- Unexpected action of bisphenol A on the inner ear of certain vertebrates
- An ancestral link between genetic and environmental sex determination
- Against the tide: Currents keep dolphins apart; Study finds invisible oceanographic factors that keep populations separate
- Beetle explorers name new species for Roosevelt
- Cutting carbon dioxide could help prevent droughts, new research shows
- Biofilm reorganization: Microcinematic image analysis finds existing theories of bacterial self-organization are lacking
- Research brings habitat models into the future
Posted 2011-03-25:
- Mouse cancer genome unveils genetic errors in human cancers
- Researchers help map tsunami and earthquake damage in Japan
- High levels of dietary nitrate might in part explain the vascular benefits of diets rich in leafy greens
- Loss of plant diversity threatens Earth's life-support systems, experts say
- Glimpse of how the 'code' of life may have emerged
- Suggesting genes' friends, Facebook-style
- The evolution of brain wiring: Navigating to the neocortex
- Neutron analysis yields insight into bacteria for solar energy
- Epigenomic findings illuminate veiled variants: Study assigns meaning to regions beyond genes with implications for studies of common diseases
- 'Junk food' moms have 'junk food' babies
- Plant oil may hold key to reducing obesity-related medical issues, researcher finds
- Road traffic pollution doubles risk of rejection after lung transplant
- Health information technology 'control tower' could improve earthquake response
- Researchers collect 'signals intelligence' on insect pests
- Larger female hyenas produce more offspring
- Developing strategies in a desert watershed that sustain regional water supplies
Posted 2011-03-24:
- Study finds no association between mercury exposure and risk of cardiovascular disease
- Zebrafish model of human melanoma reveals new cancer gene
- Bird embryo provides unique insights into development related to cancer and wound healing
- Anaerobic digestion on farms could turn agriculture green
- Tree resin captures key evidence of current and ancient insect invasions
- European coastal pollution is harmful to seals, study finds
- Plant buffers can slow runoff of veterinary antibiotics
- First image of protein residue in 50-million-year-old reptile skin
- New scientific field will study ecological importance of sounds
- Bees could reveal key to dementia
- Load up on fiber now, avoid heart disease later
- In the race of life, better an adaptable tortoise than a fit hare
- Good news for meat lovers: Most ready-to-eat meat products contain very few cancerous compounds, study finds
- New technique could help solve mystery of vanishing bees
- Scientists grow personalized collections of intestinal microbes
- Scientists crack molecular code regulating neuronal excitability
- The killer within: A novel bacterial suicide mechanism
- The Mekong: Record of the Vietnam War
- Chikungunya: The key role of 'innate immunity'
- Carbon capture and storage: Carbon dioxide pressure dissipates in underground reservoirs
- Two new targets for melanoma therapies
Posted 2011-03-23:
- Tahoe native fish population declines sharply, invasives on the rise
- Stress affects the balance of bacteria in the gut and immune response
- Unknown animals nearly invisible yet there
- Golf courses that reuse water irrigate too much, study suggests
- Newly discovered virus implicated in deadly Chinese outbreaks
- Conservationists develop coral 'stress test' to identify reefs more likely to survive climate change
- Saving one of the world's most endangered birds
- Native Americans modified American landscape years prior to arrival of Europeans
- Fish know to avoid the spear
- New treatment may desensitize kids with milk allergies, study suggests
- How the lily blooms: Ruffling at the edge of each petal drives the delicate flower to open
- How different strains of parasite infection affect behavior differently
- Channeling powerful Kansas wind to keep electricity running
- Fewer bats carry rabies than thought
- Compound from Chinese medicine blocks biofilm formation on medical implant materials
- Biodiversity leads to higher productivity
- A 'fossil seismograph' for ancient earthquakes
- Streptococcus enzyme could compete with toothbrushes, dental floss
- Basking in the sun: How large mammals survive winter in the mountains
- Canadian Avalanche victims die significantly quicker than Swiss counterparts, study finds
- A better test for human papillomavirus
- New model for studying Parkinson's: Swiss researchers develop new, working mammalian model to combat genetic causes of the disease
Posted 2011-03-22:
- Spacebound bacteria inspire earthbound remedies
- Fault-finding coral reefs can predict the site of coming earthquakes
- A dose of safflower oil each day might help keep heart disease at bay
- Overfertilizing corn undermines ethanol: Researchers find feeding crops too heavily bad for biofuel, environment
- Primordial soup gets spicier: 'Lost' samples from famous origin of life researcher shed new light on Earth's first life
- Molecular determinant of cell identity discovered
- Designing forests to protect roads below from falling rock
- Huge ocean 'Frisbees' spin off Brazil's coast
- One hundred new species of lichenized fungi
- Ancient human trash heaps gave rise to Everglades tree islands, research suggests
- Newer antimalarials more effective than quinine against severe malaria
- North Atlantic oceanic currents play greater role in absorption of carbon than previously thought
- Gut bacteria can control organ functions
- Rock-paper-scissors tournaments explain ecological diversity
- Making viruses pass for 'safe'
- The case for a neoproterozoic oxygenation event
- Can bees color maps better than ants?
- Mutant prions help cells foil harmful protein misfolding
- Natural clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories
- Important structure in the transmission of light signals deciphered
- Surprising results in the first genome sequencing of a crustacean
Posted 2011-03-21:
- Economics and evolution help scientists identify new strategy to control antibiotic resistance
- Fairy wrens are accountants of the animal kingdom, not altruistic as previously thought
- Tests on century-old equipment show how far X-rays have come
- Scientists use light to move molecules within living cells
- New process cleanly extracts oil from tar sands and fouled beaches
Posted 2011-03-20:
- Secrets of plague revealed through super-resolution microscopy technique
- Chemical-free pest management cuts rice waste
- Allergies? Pollen also appears outside flowering season
- World record for DNA analysis
- Wide variety in nutritional content found in 'senior' dog foods
Posted 2011-03-19:
- Human prejudice has ancient evolutionary roots
- Human gender roles influence research on animals, Swedish biologists argue
- Ecologists use 70-year-old pressed plants to chart city's vanishing native flora
- Hospital infections: Unique antibody from llamas provide weapon against Clostridium difficile
- Record-breaking 2010 Eastern European/Russian heatwave
- Scientists take a look at systems biology and cellular networking
- Japanese tsunami underscores need for elder disaster preparedness
- Dine or dash? Genes help worm decide when to look for new food
- Insight into parasite 'family planning' could help target malaria
- New technologies to crack down on counterfeit whisky
- Flowering plant study 'catches evolution in the act'
- World first: Localized delivery of an anti-cancer drug by remote-controlled microcarriers
- Graphene cloak protects bacteria, leading to better images
- A mutation causing wrinkled skin of Shar-Pei dogs is linked to periodic fever disorder
- Resveratrol may be useful tool for reducing body fat
- Sink or source? A new model to measure organic carbon in surface waters
- A new evolutionary history of primates
- Intervention offers 'best chance' to save species endangered by climate change, expert argues
- Vitamin A plays key role in the human body, study suggests
Posted 2011-03-18:
- Biodiversity conservation: Zoos urged to breed animals from threatened populations
- Bio-inspired sensors hold promise
- New tool to monitor coral reef 'vital signs'
- Electric grid reliability: Increasing energy storage in vanadium redox batteries by 70 percent
- E. coli engineered to produce record-setting amounts of alternative fuel
- Why are the elderly so vulnerable to pneunomia?
- Fossils record reveals ancient migrations, trilobite mass matings
- New tool debuts for measuring indoor air pollutants
- New technique enables much faster production of inexpensive solar cells
- New laser technique opens doors for drug discovery
- Not so eagle eyed: New study reveals why birds collide with human-made objects
- Saint Patrick didn’t have it easy ... but at least the food wasn’t bad
- Sounds of Japan earthquake and aftershocks from underwater observatories
- Rare Andean cat no longer exclusive to the Andes
- Omalizumab relieves seasonal asthma attacks in youth, study finds
- NASA's Aqua satellite spies a '3-leaf Clover' view of Ireland for St. Patrick's Day
- Plasticity of plants helps them adapt to climate change
- Northern peatlands a misunderstood player in climate change
- Sexual plant reproduction: Male and female parts 'talk' in the same way as do cells in your brain
- New software calculates heating costs in greenhouse operations
Posted 2011-03-17:
- Ancient 'hyperthermals' serve as guide to anticipated climate changes; Sudden global warming events more frequent?
- High-tech concrete technology has a famous past
- Zooming in on the weapons of Salmonella
- Viscous cycle: Quartz is key to plate tectonics
- Pig model of cystic fibrosis improves understanding of disease
- Japan earthquake disaster: Geophysicists create animation showing sequence of quakes
- Why some microbial genes are more promiscuous than others
- Naval sonar exercises linked to whale strandings, according to new report
- New 'dissolvable tobacco' products may increase risk of mouth disease
- Earthquake could mean major shortage of some Japanese cars in US
- NASA satellite sees area affected by Japan tsunami
- How chickens keep their cool: Mutation explains odd look of Transylvanian naked neck chicken
- Gene modification: Leaf beetle larvae attacking birch trees produce toxic cocktails that differ from the ones produced by conspecifics living on willows
- Proteins may affect behavior and physiology of female mosquitoes
- The development of better biotech enzymes
- Malaria drug slows pancreatic cancer growth in mouse models
- Unprecedented view of protein folding may help develop brain disease therapies
- Scientists fly through the clouds to piece together climate puzzle
- New study predicts cholera epidemic in Haiti will far exceed UN projections
- New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus
- Dairy farmer finds unusual forage grass
- Wheels up for NASA mission's most extensive Arctic ice survey
- Attendance at U.S. state parks grows, even as funding decreases
Posted 2011-03-16:
- How tuberculosis bacteria manage to survive inside body’s macrophage cells
- Seedlings thrive with distant relatives, seeds with close family
- Potentially pathogenic microbes growing on at least half of all orthodontic retainers, study suggests
- How pathogenic E. coli bacterium causes illness
- Genetic analysis reveals history, evolution of an ancient delicacy -- morels
- Best possible night light: Researchers study how light cycles impact zoo animals
- Old-growth tree stumps tell the story of fire in the upper Midwest
- Orchid lures flies with scent of rotting flesh
- U.S. Geological Survey updates magnitude of Japan’s 2011 Tohoku earthquake to 9.0
- Japan quake may have slightly shortened Earth days, moved axis, theoretical calculations suggest
- Seedless cherimoya, the next banana?
- Neanderthals were nifty at controlling fire
- Extent and speed of lionfish spread unprecedented; Invasive marine fish may stress reefs
- Hawaii: New high-resolution carbon mapping techniques provide more accurate results
- Native trout fare best when dams use natural stream flow management practices
- How the slime mold gets organized
- New desalination process developed using carbon nanotubes
- Gulf oil spill: Airborne chemistry measurements assess flow rate, fate of spilled gases and oil
- NOAA's Fisheries Service raises butterfish catch to help prevent premature closure of squid fishery
Posted 2011-03-15:
- 'Fly tree of life' mapped, adds big branch of evolutionary knowledge
- Lessons from Japan's earthquake
- Toxoplasmosis: The strain explains severity of infection
- Arctic on the verge of record ozone loss
- Antioxidants in pregnancy prevent obesity in animal offspring
- Japanese nuclear plants damaged by earthquake, tsunami pose no risk to U.S., experts say
- Used woodwind and brass musical instruments harbor harmful bacteria and fungi, study suggests
- Salmonella bacteria used to fight cancer
- Multiple taste cell sensors contribute to detecting sugars
- Scientists discover genetic abnormalities after creation of stem cells
- Unique frog helps amphibian conservation efforts
- Miniature 'wearable' PET scanner: Simultaneous study of behavior and brain function in animals
- Shape memory polymers shed light on how cells respond to physical environment
- Study of 90 animals' thigh bones reveals how they can efficiently carry loads
- Researchers use lasers, custom microscope to show gene splicing process in real time
- Untapped crop data from Africa predicts corn peril if temperatures rise
- Back pain in both master and dog, Swedish research shows
Posted 2011-03-14:
- Non-native snakes are taking a toll on native birds in Florida, scientists find
- NASA images tsunami's effects on northeastern Japan
- Chilly times for Chinese dinosaurs: Abundance of feathered dinosaurs during temperate climate with harsh winters
- Scientists reveal role of light sensor in temperature sensation
- Mouse nose nerve cells mature after birth, allowing bonding, recognition with mother
- Atlantis found? Film highlights professor’s efforts to locate fabled lost city
- Halibut stock decline forces increased management measures for southeast Alaska charter fleet
Posted 2011-03-13:
- Low cost solar cells: New European record in efficiency
- Engineer studies damage caused by New Zealand earthquake
- Nanoscale whiskers from sea creatures could grow human muscle tissue
- Perfect buns: Imaging system controls baking process on production line to improve sandwich bun quality
Posted 2011-03-12:
- Radiation expert discusses Japan nuclear power plant concerns
- West Coast tsunami warnings shouldn’t lull Oregonians to sleep, expert says
- NASA study goes to Earth's core for climate insights
- Near-real-time map of Japan quake aftershocks
- Pacific Northwest faces nearly identical risks to Japanese quake
- Geologists in the UK trace readings from Japan earthquake
- Pinpointing air pollution's effects on the heart
- Snails' complex muscle movements, rather than mucus, key to locomotion
- Oldest known wild bird in US returns to Midway to raise chick
- Anthropologists link human uniqueness to hunter-gatherer group structure
- Roundworm could provide new treatment for sepsis
- Weed-eating fish 'key to reef survival'
- New robot system to test 10,000 chemicals for toxicity
- Scientists develop high-tech crop map
Posted 2011-03-11:
- Pollution forms an invisible barrier for marine life
- Aerosol plumes downwind of Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Insights from air pollution study have applications beyond Gulf
- Aging rates, gender gap in mortality similar across all primates
- Banana peels get a second life as water purifier
- 'Love song' of the fly shows how nervous system initiates, controls and utilized behavior
- American birds of prey at higher risk of poisoning from pest control chemicals
- Migrating moths and songbirds travel at similar rates
- Drug use increasingly associated with microbial infections
- Surprisingly few white sharks off California, first census finds
- Cell component involved in triggering cat allergy identified
- How plants sort and eliminate genes over millennia
- Foundations of empathy in chickens? Avian maternal response to chick distress studied
- New mouse models generated for MYH9 genetic disorders
- Model organisms? Broadening the biological lexicon to bolster translational research
- Intelligent microscopy: Software runs experiments on its own
Posted 2011-03-10:
- 'Singing' mice: The ongoing debate of nature vs. Nurture
- New biomarker for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease identified
- Synthetic biology: Novel kind of fluorescent protein developed
- Deforestation's impact on Mount Kilimanjaro calculated
- New type of secretory cell in the intestine
- Missing DNA helps make us human
- Newly identified spider toxin may help uncover novel ways of treating pain and human diseases
- Fossil bird study describes ripple effect of extinction in animal kingdom
- The science behind the cape: How one physiology researcher is using batman to put some POW! Into physiology studies
- Great tits also have age-related defects
- New instrument for analyzing viruses: Sensitive 'PING' device
- It's all in a name: 'Global warming' vs. 'climate change'
- Evolution drives many plants and animals to be bigger, faster
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